The Hon. Mr. Justice Patrick Brooks

Company - Petition for Winding Up - Whether there is a bona fide

dispute as to the debt - Whether company solvent - Requirements for

advertisement in the Jamaica Gazette of the hearing of the petition.

Employment - Wrongful dismissal - Contract providing for termination with notice

- Employer terminating with notice - Life Insurance Agent - Whether agent barred

from entering company premises thereafter - Whether termination amounted to

' wrongful repudiation

Negligence - Employer's Liability - Casual labourer sustaining lower back iniury -

Whether worker sustaining back injury while on a previous tour of duty with the

emplover - Whether job required protective equipment - Whether employer

negligent

Employment - Wrongful dismissal - Fixed term contract for service providing for

termination with notice or payment in lieu thereof - Employer terminating with

payment in lieu but mentioning reasons leading to termination - Whether employer

terminating for cause without utilising the established disciplinary procedure -

Whether termination amounted to wrongful repudiation

Contract - Construction of a house - Scope of the contract - Whether majority of

the work comprised in one contract or two - Some aspects of the work undone -

deductions to be made for work not done

Negligence - Employer's Liability - Experienced emplovee sustaining chemical

burns - Flooded work area - Whether employer failed to ensure correct safetv

footwear worn - Whether employee contributorily negli~en-t Whether uncovered

drain unsafe - Proximate cause of injury

Damages - whether loss of overtime wapes are recoverable

Pension - Occupational Pension Scheme - Employer substituting one pension

scheme for others - Whether substitution in breach of trust deeds establishing the

originals - Whether terms of new scheme a breach of members' contracts of

employment - Whether loss caused to members of the original schame - Whether

approval by the trustees of the substitution constituted negligence

Practice and Procedure - Application to strike out claim as disclosing no cause of

action- Principles guiding court- whether Claim has any real prospect  of success

Practice and Procedure - application to amend Particulars of Claim -whether

insincere

Maintenance - Application to varv consent order for maintenance of child -

Application made pursuant to the Children (Guardianship and Custody) Act -

Whether the circumstances of the applicant are to be taken into account -Whether

the provisions of the Maintenance Act are applicable

Practice and Procedure - Default Judgment entered prior to the introduction of the

CPR - No application made for case management conference - Whether claim

struck out in accordance with the provision\ of rule 73.3 of the CPR